Just had a quick question want to see how sins will run on my laptop was just wondering if there's an easy way to transfer it from one computer to another. Did the digital download so I dont have a CD I can use. Would rather not have to download it again on the laptop. Cheers
[quote] Megaships have been brought up several times in the past. They won't be happening, AFAIK, though you're as always free to mod them if you so desire. if you think about it these massive ships would really just be one GIANT target. Think the command ship off Star Wars, everyone and their cousin were having a good ol' time blasting the crap out of it. [/quote] Which is exactly why I like the idea of
Just a reply to a thread I read the other day where somone was complaining that once they'd effectivly won it then still took hours to finish off the map. I ended up playing a Me+AI v 3AI v 3AI single system 10 planet. The Early game was very hectic I basically had to defens not only myself but my AI buddy who of course was completely outmatached by the 3AI on his side of the map, was acutally kinda fun protecting him as well as myself and trying to buildup a fleet. A little while after
In general if you just select all your ships and move them as a group to the esdge of a grav well roughly facing the line you want them to travel wait till they all get there and the jump they will all jump within a few seconds of each other. Although on a couple of occations I've had a sync'd jump
There are 3 bars Blue on the top longest is antimatter Green below left second longest hull Yellow below right shortest shield bar
Well if such a system was implement then static defense would need to be tone'd waaay down to compensate just to begin with it really would require a complete re-balance A soft half way of doing it would be to have 3 types of ships Heavy Assult/Defense , ships are the most powerful in each of thier classes but lack antimatter regen ability Hybrids, Have mdoerate assults/defense and also have antimatter regen fundamentally what ships currently are Tankers, are basi
A bold statement I know and probably haven't spent enough time thinking it through but hey here it is anyway. Just thought it might add an extra layer of tactical options/restrictions Thought it might be nice if antimatter was a depleteable ship consumable no regen. How would this work ? Planets would manufacture antimatter through an orbital structure. Antimatter tanks would be needed to hold (fleet sized) quantities. extra production facilities increase production rate. extra
May have been mentioned before but why do the health/shield bars not show a 1:1 ratio of bar space ? The Health bar seems disproportionally large compared with the shield bar. Before I realised I thought that the ships and therefore the weapons I was using had less effect on shields. At times making out the difference between 30 to 70% shields can get a little tricky on the frigates and cruisers at a glance, makes shield repping with a dunvo at the right moment just a little ha
hehehe fair enough
Maybe its a bad investment but it seems like a no brainer to me if you have the cash. Just realised after looking at end game stats of a 10 player (9 AI) game and none of them spent any money on capital ship upgrades. Now just looking at an AI wallet they seem to delplete thier funds before it ever hits higher than 1000 which would of course make it impossible to ever upgrade a capital past lv 2. Just wondering if this is intended and that spending money on upgrading c
right so best way to level a capital is solo with a large support fleet
e.g. Would a capital with 4 frigates get more XP than a capital with 10 frigates ? Or does XP and XP split only apply to multiple capital ships ?
Excuss me while I derail my own post but I figured this didnt need a thread of its own. Question Are the current ship list in beta 4 all of the ships for the two races ? Or are we expecting to see more added before release ? thanks
Just wondering if random events are going to be included e.g. Your colony on X a Volcanic planet has been crippled becuase of a , you guessed it, volcano that popped up right next to it. the always popular your mining colony found a superrich vein of crystal you get 2x income for the next X seconds. Or Asteriod belt Y has been hit by a solarstorm and lost cohesion, as such there is not enough gravity to maintain the jump lines to it, (thus chaniging the strategic valu
maybe its just me but I like the idea of having one huge ship which is much a boon as a liability
[quote] This however all falls apart if you get a non colonisable node in your network like a gas giant or asteriod field. This makes jump inhibitors useless as the enemy can awalys jump to the node and attack anything onnected to it , leapfrogging your defenses. This was already mentioned and noted by the devs [/quote] Ah
A few thoughts on capitals I like the fact you get a flagship when you start, I'd argue almost essential for clearing planets to colonise early on and great for crippling a nearby enemy if you can take out his capital without losing your own if its a crowded map. Now I also agree that capitals should always be open for building from the start it creates alot of tactical options and adds much of the early/mid game flavour. if they were limited everyone would be forced to turle e
Just a quick comment on jump inhibitors. They can be very useful if you can grab a pocket of space and have 2-3 guard planets/asteriods covering your main planets freeing them up for more reaserach and less defense. This however all falls apart if you get a non colonisable node in your network like a gas giant or asteriod field. This makes jump inhibitors useless as the enemy can awalys jump to the node and attack anything onnected to it , leapfrogging your defenses. N
